merge: update documentation for {merge,diff}.renameLimit

Update the documentation to better indicate that the renameLimit setting is
ignored if rename detection is turned off via command line options or config
settings.

Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/diff-config.txt b/Documentation/diff-config.txt
index 5ca942ab5e2d5dfd67ceb06c5991f446b207de90..77caa66c2f768b6e43322c4662f45b4191a163c0 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/diff-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-config.txt
@@ -112,7 +112,8 @@ diff.orderFile::
 
 diff.renameLimit::
        The number of files to consider when performing the copy/rename
-       detection; equivalent to the 'git diff' option `-l`.
+       detection; equivalent to the 'git diff' option `-l`. This setting
+       has no effect if rename detection is turned off.
 
 diff.renames::
        Whether and how Git detects renames.  If set to "false",

diff --git a/Documentation/merge-config.txt b/Documentation/merge-config.txt
index 12b6bbf591ee801e0723f59db0e0abe7dc88ec73..48ee3bce77c28ed5137f9345fd9376f5f43b1bf1 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/merge-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/merge-config.txt
@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ include::fmt-merge-msg-config.txt[]
 merge.renameLimit::
        The number of files to consider when performing rename detection
        during a merge; if not specified, defaults to the value of
-       diff.renameLimit.
+       diff.renameLimit. This setting has no effect if rename detection
+       is turned off.
 
 merge.renormalize::
        Tell Git that canonical representation of files in the